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I wanted to have this perfect letter written out to you – this concoction of love and inspiration and truth all mixed into one – words you would treasure for a lifetime. Yet, looking into your beautiful eyes and knowing your lovely hearts on this very first day of being teenagers, I’m at a loss. […]

Today was our first day of school for the year. We’ve got first, second, fourth, sixth, and seventh grades going on at out home. And I’m barely able to believe the words in the previous sentence are true. I find it this incredibly beautiful mixture of happy-sad. Oh, I am so grateful for a God […]

What words could I express to my daughter on her eighth birthday? Oh, sweet Love, there are no words to truly convey all that I long for you to know. But with happy tears streaming down (because how is it possible that it’s been eight years already!?) I humbly scratch out a smidgen of my […]

Half a dozen years ago we held this beauty for the first time. Who knew that our love could multiply so much that day after celebrating the years of marriage & love & time & faithfulness!? But just after the sun shone brightly that June morning our precious Ariya Faith was born. And this sweet […]

It’s been fifteen years with this man I love, and he just keeps stealing my heart. Oh, I love him and our life together – the everyday, ordinary, digging in the dirt together moments, & the wonder of watching our children getting older and us getting older too. I love you, Gabe – your heart, […]

A summer’s worth of days spent in these words scratched out centuries ago, and I know my heart won’t ever be the same. It was this awe-filled glory found in moments carved out and tucked in between picnics and pillow forts and that mountain of laundry. And though the pages in my Bible have turned, […]

I can’t help but feel the tears trickling down my cheeks and the sweet smile on my lips. For we have sought to grow closer to our God, and have spent many moments, hours, and days being transformed by His hope and grace and love. And now, here we are, the very last week of […]

There are a lot of hard and messy and hurt-filled moments in our home. I know that it may not seem that way. It’s easy to look at the pictures of smiling kids and read the stories of beautiful times, and conclude that we have it all together. But the truth is that there’s a […]

I’ve loved the sweet messages that so many of you have slipped my way. It is humbling and unbelievably beautiful to see God working in lives around the world. – One thing many of you have mentioned is that you’ve fallen behind. May I tuck some encouragement in your heart? My hope for this study […]

Another week of reading of God’s imperishable hope and unfathomable goodness – and I grow more and more in awe of Him. How amazing that we can have hope and complete reconciliation. This reconciliation that comes not from our doing, but from a God so, so far greater and more wonderful than we could ever […]

So, yeah… that day when the whole world seemed to declare that love had won? It had been this crazy concoction of a day filled with throwing everything but the kitchen sink into suitcases and filling water bottles and repacking bags the kids had gotten into and plotting how far we could make it to […]

Oh, my heart is heavy. But this week of reading about some of the beloved people written across the pages of His Word has brought me hope, And left me in awe of a God who would let the stories of lives lived centuries ago – trickle down to touch my heart. For these stories […]

A week of reading God’s heart in words – And I find myself longing for more. It’s as if these letters penned centuries ago were scratched out on those pages just for me. For as the darkness rages around me, I can’t help but be dazzled by His love, His light, His truth. Yet I […]

I sit with heart heavy, but excitement reigning. For I know that as we seek to know God deeply, we will draw strength from Him, the most glorious Light. For He will go before us and will be with us as we surround ourselves with Truth! And we can be assured that as we surrender […]

I feel this deep longing again – This ache that reaches right down to my soul. A desperate plea to know God better. To let His light shine through my darkest cracks. To be illuminated by Him. Amidst melt-downs over toothpaste or tackling mountains of dishes. Amidst little girl smiles that can melt any heart […]